The World Health Organisation has red-flagged the capacity of some countries to effectively impose lockdown due to poverty, Newsday reports. The organisation said the move to enforce a lockdown in some countries which are marred with poverty where people literally work for their daily bread was equivalent in seriousness as infringing on people’s rights.

WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus in a media briefing on Monday said:

That can only buy time, but at the same time, each and every country has a strong social welfare system, but other countries don’t and I come from Africa, as you know, and I know many people actually have to work every single day to win their daily bread and governments should take this population into account.